starless

a. 没有星的, 没有星光的

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释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Without visible stars.

    The starless night was very dark.

    1940, Robert Hayden, "Sonnet to E.," lines 1-2, in Heart-Shape in the Dust, cited in "Robert Hayden: The Apprenticeship: Heart-Shape in the Dust (1940)", African-American Poets, Volume 1: 1700s—1940s, edited by Harold Bloom, Infobase, 2009, p. 15, Beloved, there have been starless times when I / Have longed to join the alien hosts of death,

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词源

From Middle English sterreles, equivalent to star + -less. Piecewise doublet of asterless.

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